At least 41 people have been killed
and 20 injured in a gun attack on a
bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in
the Pakistani city of Karachi, police
say.
Officers said at least six gunmen on
motorcycles stopped the bus and fired at
passengers indiscriminately.
"There are 41 deaths, men and women
included," police spokesman Atiq Shaikh
told Reuters.
Pakistan's Shia minority are the target of
frequent sectarian attacks from Sunni
militant groups.
Television channels carried pictures of a
pink bus covered in bullet holes.
No group has yet said it carried out the
attack.
Provincial police chief Ghulam Haider
Jamali said the bus was on its way to an
Ismaili Shia Muslim place of worship
when gunmen boarded it in the Safoora
Goth area of Karachi and fired at
passengers.
The Taliban and other Sunni Muslim
extremist groups have targeted Shia
Muslims in Pakistan in the past.
In the last few months, several mosques
belonging to religious minorities have
been bombed.
and 20 injured in a gun attack on a
bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in
the Pakistani city of Karachi, police
say.
Officers said at least six gunmen on
motorcycles stopped the bus and fired at
passengers indiscriminately.
"There are 41 deaths, men and women
included," police spokesman Atiq Shaikh
told Reuters.
Pakistan's Shia minority are the target of
frequent sectarian attacks from Sunni
militant groups.
Television channels carried pictures of a
pink bus covered in bullet holes.
No group has yet said it carried out the
attack.
Provincial police chief Ghulam Haider
Jamali said the bus was on its way to an
Ismaili Shia Muslim place of worship
when gunmen boarded it in the Safoora
Goth area of Karachi and fired at
passengers.
The Taliban and other Sunni Muslim
extremist groups have targeted Shia
Muslims in Pakistan in the past.
In the last few months, several mosques
belonging to religious minorities have
been bombed.
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